The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-01-28
A PoET-JouRNALlsT.
A Brief Sketch Of the Late #. ID.
Plimpton's Poems.

A Brief Sketch of the Late #. b.
PIimpton's Poems.
@ Especial Correspondcnce.l tass
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-One of the most ex-
quisite books OF this holiday season is the
volume containing collection of poems by
the late Florus B. Phmpton. He died last
spring, at the comparatively early age of 55
He was born In Ohio, and had been q news
paper editor since he was 81 For twenty
Ave years before his death he had been on the
staff OF The Cincinnati Commercial and The
Commercial Gazette, which succeeded It.
II Florus Plimpton had been rich man
he would have been one OF the foremost poets
Of his time. As it was, his flying Pegasus
had to be harnessed to the cart horse drudgery
of daily newspaper. That is his whole
story. He died before his time, with the best
part Of his genius unexpressed. For such O
thwarted life there must be expression some
time and somewhere. Tt cannot be other.
WISE
Such poems as he left came to him mostly
in the night, when he was restless and wake
tui, and he noted them down. Sometimes be
printed them. sometimes not. After he died
Mrs. Plmpton gathered such az she could
Ind and published them in beautiful book
MIR. Murat Halstead, with whom the dead
had boe,, ,ss,o;a+al e. . ..,..,..8... -.
,vrot ~, o,o,,,,.,,+ a.. 4..,,
- '. -. 10y A 49, AAA'. oe.ae0ion one VI I"o
newspaper friends, OF the very few who
knew the intense, steadfast nature as it was,
contributed some words of appreciation and
tender regret Artists who had known hin,
ard so,o ,yho had tbo; ;,s+ al.
0Au 'oia,o VINO hau 'ne' ufsC Aihuiy encour-
agement from O line wrote, made pictures
illustrating the pc, .ns Fl. b f. Farny,
Niehaus, the sculptor; Henry Mosier, E. D.
GGTaIton, =. L. Webber, Valentine, Misses
them. From far a Bsriin PrSfesser are aHH1ng Hangs
Gude. the master sands also h;e riot
ures to gild tha I,onE conta;nino tba
poems of Flor,,s Pimnton H;s 1v;fae bar.
Elf : ,r;et,i 80 III iuup LIZ Us "Ae, nsI
ana aa appropriate pictures,
who knew and loved him, comes this souye-
is published bv Mrs Pl;nntnn Of r;nc;onat; nv io
H,l,a ..a.n = - -: = - -, P., - -, o,ae-lAoNl; l.
ale posEls T are OF various lengths, long and
snoat; s,, :. ihey SPEAK tender r. nearness 70 na-
mans fondness for the trees and sunshine,
and waters Yet thro;,ol II ali tharo ,,,,,s :
vein Of ,veirta nnastion;rg ~ tLa .lao,,a, fooas
- re- 41essAoi.,is VI sno oeepe. AoieeS
OF life ana nature that at times is very
y ss'IIklhg: nklg: .g.sz,ss
of tho poems is RLewis Wetzel. > the story OF
hAfvT
~ F1'o-s. = - f-r
ctous nearEed Lewis Wetzei
phs ,y;idar,ass sIs bot;nd iMei Sins shure'
And the wilderness before.
sfI He rides a. tra. c,o, n ,,,,or,;n,x
Hnmmna . daar old ~ trna s'
Into the heart of the greenwood,
iheo tno heart OF June
. Here IS one in q different vein. remeHl-
her well how it originated in an amusing cir
cuInstance that hapDened in tlla old Commer
rial Office. - - - - - q
THE BBOWN tCHICKADEE.
A FABLE
In the top OF an oak SAT a brown cbickaf1ee.
It seemed hut sr,eek fo,. the heioht Of the frae.
And il chirr,ped and twitfered 1iiIl straiyhtwav
it saw - - - S-'ss'1'' =
Through the green leaves the forms Of dove and
r,,,,, = I. aaw. aa,s..s - y.
nen as ~ aa.eefeo iss wings, ana puiied oat IT'S
And the feathers stood nm from, its ta;, 70 Ito
crest
THE itnpertnent jades!'' in its anger it cried,
hoF f3pa fraa